He just looked at me. Like it was my turn to react.
So I ran. My heart in my mouth, my breaths coming in short pants, my feet hitting the grass in rhythmic beats, in unison with my racing pulse.
It wasn't exactly hard, he clearly wasn't expecting it. I ran to the safety of the dark forest behind him, where the castles lights couldn't penetrate the thick foliage. I ran to where I knew it was safe. My home. I don't think he chased me, all I could hear was the soft crunch of autumn leaves beneath my feet, the only evidence I was there. In summer, when the ground was clear, I was so quiet you could hear silence more easily.
The wildlife weren't disturbed by my light step and dark figure wandering through the forest. After 16 years, you tend to familiarise. As long as I didn't disturb them, they didn't disturb me. I reached a tree, and collapsed.
My thoughts raced with my heart.
How could I have been so stupid? Of course there was going to be someone there. How couldn't there be? It's the castle!
What if he follows me? What if this is it? You've fought so long to preserve this way of life and now it's all thrown away because you're stupid??
I went on like this for almost a full hour, until my breathing had settled, and I came to my senses.
No one followed you.
A wicked grin spread across my face. I gave myself this minute to observe my surroundings. I was in the middle of the forest, not far from a stream. I followed a deer with my eyes, her hooves softly crunching on the forest floor. In the forest, the deer were my closest allies.
Sometimes I feed them.
Sometimes they warn me if I have unexpected company.
Like the boy that discovered my secret. He has wandered many a time into my part of the forest, as if in search of something. I watch him from the branches, and wait for him to leave. I used to wonder what he was searching for. Now I know it was me.
Who is he? What does he want? Why did he call me beautif-
Snap out of it. You'll have time for these thoughts later.
For now, I just needed water.
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Thiefess
De TodoImilia- green eyes, red hair, a thief. The greatest thief in all of the kingdom to be exact. Too bad this time- she stole the wrong thing. Matthias- Young, handsome, the prince. Sworn to hunt down Imilia and discover her secret identity. Too bad she...
